Quotes About Assertiveness

Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

When recovering Nice Guys decide they will no longer settle for anything less than good sex, they begin to take responsibility for doing something different. •?They let go of the concept of being a great lover. •?They practice being clear and direct. •?They choose available partners. •?They don't settle for scraps. •?They decide that bad sex is not better than no sex!

By trying to please everyone, Nice Guys often end up pleasing no one — including themselves. Seeking

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who's boss.

But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don't plead with it to be a good little spider and please stop poisoning people.

Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.

I never do anything I don't want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it.

I'm not feisty. But when you're as small as I am and female if you don't stand up for your rights, you're sure to be pushed around by big, hairy, smelly men with delusions about male superiority.

nobody has ever been able to keep a girl off her back when she decides it's time. When she decides—that's the key to the matter.

Can Penny come in?"  "Oh, sure! But you can tell her that she is wasting her time; the answer is still 'No.' "  So I changed my mind. Confound it, why should an argument seem so much more logical when underlined with a whiff of Jungle Lust?

Are you going to shake my hand,or am I going to rip your heart out?

Are you trying to compromise my manhood?" I said. "Oh, yeah, that," she said. "Now and then I forget.

When we settled in to eat, Susan said, "So, tell me about it." "You shrinks are always so cocksure," I said. "Nice word choice," Susan said. "In the current context.

I could speak to her, but she'd continue to do what she wants, and I'd look ineffectual. My approach is to endorse everything she does.

I called Hawk on his cell phone. "Where are you?" I said. "Not your business," he said. "What are you doing." "Very not your business," he said. "Oh that," I said.

Words can," Susan said. "And tone of voice. You're just so goddamned autonomous that you won't explain yourself to anybody.

The buzz cut and his friend came over. "You are coming with us." The buzz cut spoke the words with a careful, starched pronunciation that made me think of Arnold Schwarzenegger, only the accent was Russian. "Sez who?" I can slay 'em with these comebacks.

KELLY WALSH STOOD twelve inches from the table, close enough so he was forced to look up, but not so close as to touch the table. Pike recognized this as a controlling technique. By assuming a superior position she hoped to create a sense of authority. Like unplugging the camera. She was demonstrating she had the power to do as she wished, even at Parker Center. Pike

No he venido hasta aquí para ser insultado. - Quizá siempre os habéis tomado la verdad como un insulto

At your birth a seed is planted. That seed is your uniqueness. It wants to grow, transform itself, and flower to its full potential. It has a natural, assertive energy to it. Your Life's Task is to bring that seed to flower, to express your uniqueness through your work. You have a destiny to fulfill. The stronger you feel and maintain it--as a force, a voice or in whatever form-- the greater your chance of fulfilling this Life's Task and achieving mastery.

The root cause of all passive aggression is the human fear of direct confrontation—the emotions that a conflict can churn up and the loss of control that ensues.

At your birth a seed is planted. That seed is your uniqueness. It wants to grow, transform itself, and flower to its full potential. It has a natural, assertive energy to it. Your Life's Task is to bring that seed to flower, to express your uniqueness through your work. You have a destiny to fulfill. The stronger you feel and maintain it—as a force, a voice, or in whatever form—the greater your chance for fulfilling this Life's Task and achieving mastery.